Personal Ethics and Ordinary Heroes
The Social Context of Morality
By: Michael C. Braswell, Michael J. DeValve
Hardcover | 30 November 2020
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Personal Ethics and Ordinary Heroes: The Social Context of Morality examines what it means to be an authentic hero and provides real-life narratives that underscore the ethical principles guiding decision-making in the justice system and beyond.
This engaging work revolves around a collection of excerpts from students studying ethics and social justice. The essays were responses to an invitation to write about and discuss a hero in their lives that motivated them to be more just, compassionate and morally responsible persons. These essays, collected over several years, portray shared meanings of heroism rooted in themes like sacrifice, perseverance, and wisdom. The authors set student narratives in dialogues related to ethics and leadership that are both entertaining and useful for contemporary students and practitioners. This book illustrates the lessons of ethics in criminal and social justice practice and makes them tangible to students. Fostering the benefits of experiential learning, it brings real meaning to students of criminal justice as well as professionals in the criminal justice field and other areas of human and social service practice. It can be an essential accompaniment to primary texts used in ethics courses and training seminars.
This book is intended for use in undergraduate classes in applied human sciences and services like criminal justice, criminology, social work and political science. It is particularly well-suited as a companion reading for classes in the areas of ethics, organizations and administration, and leadership. It is also worthwhile reading for the active justice practitioner.
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This book offers a completely different approach to learning about heroes, ethics and leadership. The reader will be taken on a journey through fable, fiction, and history, but, mostly, using first-person stories shared by students. The reader is invited to think about the meaning of authentic heroism. The authors share with us, their students' heroes (the parent, friend, teacher, and others) and deconstruct the elements of heroism through them. This book is supremely timely as we now recognize heroism daily in the healthcare professionals and first responders who risk their lives daily to take care of others. In this pandemic of historic proportions, DeValve and Braswell give us perspective to distinguish between leaders who are also heroes in their quiet commitment to do their duty, and those who merely posture and pretend to lead.
-Joycelyn Pollock, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Texas State University
ISBN: 9780367346157
ISBN-10: 036734615X
Published: 30th November 2020
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 118
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.78 x 0.79
Weight (kg): 0.43
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